Nicolai A. Vasiliev
Nicolai Alexandrovich Vasiliev (
Early years
Vasiliev was born on June 29
Wanting to be a psychologist, Vasiliev studied at the medical faculty and the historico-philological faculty of
As a university student, Vasiliev was enthusiastic about
Work in logic
Although Vasiliev outlined an abstract to the article on the "logic of relatives" by Charles Sanders Peirce as early as in 1897, it was only in 1908 that he entirely devoted himself to logic.
On May 18, 1910 Vasiliev presented a lecture (published in October that same year) "On Partial Judgements, on the Triangle of Opposites, on the Law of Excluded Third" in which he put forward for the first time ever the idea of (non-Aristotelian) logic, free of the laws of excluded middle and contradiction. Reasoning by analogy with the "imaginary" geometry of Lobachevsky, Vasiliev called his novel logic "imaginary", for he assumed it was valid for the worlds where the above-mentioned laws did not hold, worlds with beings having other types of sensations. He distinguished levels of logical reasoning, and introduced the notion of metalogic.
Vasiliev spent 1912-13 in
His only work in a foreign language (English) - a concise abstract of his "imaginary logic" - was published in Naples in 1924.
Late years
In 1914, when
The pioneer ideas of Vasiliev were rediscovered in the early 1960s by
Bibliography
- Works
- Vasiliev, N.A., Imaginary Logic. Moscow, ISBN 5-02-007946-4.
- Vasiliev, N.A., Logic and Metalogic translated by V.L. Vasyukov, in Axiomathes, IV (1993). n. 3, pp. 329–351.
- Vasiliev, N.A., Imaginary (non-Aristotelian) Logic, translated by R. Vergauwen and E. A. Zaytsev, in Logique et Analyse, 46 (2003), n. 182, pp. 127–163.
- Vasiliev, N.A., Logica Immaginaria. Roma: Carocci, 2012 (Italian translation of all the logical writings) ISBN 978-88-430-6666-7.
- Studies
- Arruda, A.I. The Survey of Paraconsistent Logic. In: Mathematical logic in Latin America/ Eds. Arruda A.I., Chuaqui R., Da Costa N.C.A., Amsterdam: New York: Oxford. North-Holland, 1980, pp. 1–41.
- Bazhanov, V.A. N.A. Vasiliev (1880 – 1940). Moscow, Nauka, 1988 (in Russian). ISBN 5-02-005953-6
- Bazhanov, V.A. The Fate of One Forgotten Idea: N.A.Vasiliev and His Imaginary Logic. In: Studies in Soviet Thought, 1990, vol.39, N3-4, pp. 333–334
- Bazhanov, V.A. Charles Peirce’s Influence on Logical Ideas of N.A. Vasiliev. In: Modern Logic, 1992, vol. 3. N 1, pp. 48–56
- Bazhanov, V.A. The Origins and Emergence of Non-Classical Logic in Russia (Nineteenth Century until the Turn of the Twentieth Century). In: Zwischen traditioneller und moderner Logik. Nichtklassiche Ansatze. Mentis-Verlag, Paderborn, 2001, S.205 – 217.ISBN 3-89785-203-9
- Bazhanov, V.A. History of Logic in Russia and the USSR. Moscow, Kanon+, 2007 (in Russian). ISBN 5-88373-032-9
- Bazhanov, V.A. N.A. Vasiliev and His Imaginary Logic. Restoration of One Forgotten Idea. Moscow, Kanon+, 2009 (in Russian). ISBN 978-5-88373-196-8
See also
References
- ^ Bazhanov, Valentin. "The Origins And Becoming Of Non-Classical Logic In Russia". Staff.ulsu.ru. Mentis-Verlag. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ Bazhanov, Valentin. "Vasiliev and his Imaginary Logic". Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- ^ "2012 Vasiliev Conference". Archived from the original on April 18, 2013.
External references
Philosophy Documentation Center website Non-Classical Stems from Classical: N. A. Vasiliev’s Approach to Logic and his Reassessment of the Square of Opposition, book review by Valentin A. Bazhanov (2008
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